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You can say that about Linux as well; the bread-and-butter of the CLI experience is still the GNU stuff. EDIT: Yes, there are non-GNU Linux distributions, but WSL is based off Ubuntu specifically and ships with a GNU userland by default.
What if you run a ToyBox userland then? Or BusyBox for that matter
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You can say that about Linux as well; the bread-and-butter of the CLI experience is still the GNU stuff. EDIT: Yes, there are non-GNU Linux distributions, but WSL is based off Ubuntu specifically and ships with a GNU userland by default.
What if you run a ToyBox userland then? Or BusyBox for that matter
Can we get the new, improved subsystem without having to go through the Win10 Creator's Update?
Why not go through Windows 10 Creator's Update?
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as WSL, is in fact, GNU/NT, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus NT. NT is not an operating system unto itself, but rather a non-free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of t…
In all seriousness (your message could be in favor of, hostile to, or neutral toward GNU; I can't be sure), I got rms' opinion on all of this in April of last year and wrote about it: https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/GNU-kWindows (He proofread, and I made suggested changes.)
I'm a supporter of the GNU project but I'm very ambivalent about its communication strategy. I posted this because I think it's as true for GNU/NT as it is for Ubuntu, which is... technically true, but hard to talk about without sounding off-putting.
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You can say that about Linux as well; the bread-and-butter of the CLI experience is still the GNU stuff. EDIT: Yes, there are non-GNU Linux distributions, but WSL is based off Ubuntu specifically and ships with a GNU userland by default.
There are Linux distributions which contain almost no GNU software, e.g. Alpine Linux which is built around musl libc and busybox: https://alpinelinux.org/about/
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Yes, but names starting with a trademark are a no-no. See [0] (bitcrazed works on WSL) and [1]. Also IANAL. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918 [1]: https://www.andreas-jung.com/contents/dont-use-docker-in-git...
In that case Windows Linux Subsystem seems like a good compromise.
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There are Linux distributions which contain almost no GNU software, e.g. Alpine Linux which is built around musl libc and busybox: https://alpinelinux.org/about/
WSL is "Ubuntu GNU/NT". You can't base your WSL install off other distros AFAIK.
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It's a subsystem of Windows (hence Windows Subsystem). And, among all Windows Subsystems, it's the one for Linux, hence Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Yeah it's the 'for' in there that makes it wrong. It's not 'for' Linux, it's for Windows. I know what it is and I _still_ think of it backwards every time I read it.
I would love to see terminator or a more advanced terminal.
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> developer tools, most of which are GNU software? such as python, nodejs, elixir and PHP?
You can say that about Linux as well; the bread-and-butter of the CLI experience is still the GNU stuff. EDIT: Yes, there are non-GNU Linux distributions, but WSL is based off Ubuntu specifically and ships with a GNU userland by default.
The point is compatibility much more than CLI UX. The ability to run that nodejs or Python project even though one of the 1352 subsubsubdependencies has a bug on Windows.